Portrait of Captain Samuel Chester Reid, 1815, John Wesley Jarvis, American, 1780–1839, 50 1/2 x 36 3/8 in. ( x cm) (canvas)58 7/8 x 44 5/8 x 4 in. ( x x cm) (outer frame), Oil on canvas, United States, 19th century, Captain Samuel Reid was one of the heroes of the War of 1812, defeating the British in 1814 and saving New Orleans from British conquest. In 1817, two years after this portrait was painted, Reid designed the present pattern of the American flag of stars and bars, with thirteen stripes representing the original American colonies

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Photo credit: © Penta Springs / Alamy / Afripics
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